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in pakistan. without there being any american commitment actually to be there to protect us against that retaliation if that occurred. those are pieces of history. so many times those of you have had me. >> know this is my little clicÉe but i'm going to repeat it anyway because sometimes clichÉs are good and that is americans do a lot of things very well. america is a great nation which has contributed immensely to human progress, the idea of liberty and the idea freedom and the idea of democracy modern capitalism and globalization and everything and then of course more than any other nation in at least a 200 years. there is one thing americans don't do. two things americans don't do well. one is history. the american attitude to history is you know joe, he is history. [laughter] bar or all history is bunk. that is the attitude. there was a young man who introduced himself as a history of -- and i said when i was teaching this country they rob him was finding enough kids who wanted a history maj
in pakistan. without there being any american commitment actually to be there to protect us against that retaliation if that occurred. those are pieces of history. so many times those of you have had me. >> know this is my little clicÉe but i'm going to repeat it anyway because sometimes clichÉs are good and that is americans do a lot of things very well. america is a great nation which has contributed immensely to human progress, the idea of liberty and the idea freedom and the idea of...
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we're not leaving iraq any time soon we may say we are but we're not in afghanistan we destabilize pakistan we stayed too long we lingered too long we've drone strike into the into the pocket proper so we're destabilizing pakistan and it is probably never been so fragile and such a powder keg as it is today and where the principal cause so we're not leaving afghanistan either despite what the president might say to the contrary well then you counterterrorism strategy does will say mean fewer american boots actually on the ground in conflict zones with more drone strikes in special forces raids do you think that this is the right shift in minutes the strategy. was to shift secretary gates put in motion and a lot of people intellectual weight and otherwise agree with i'm a little bit concerned about it because we can't afford to do both that is we can't afford to do preparation for what might be a larger war a more conventional war the usual target there of course is john over taiwan and do this rather sophisticated counterterrorism war which consists of coin drone strikes and so forth as you
we're not leaving iraq any time soon we may say we are but we're not in afghanistan we destabilize pakistan we stayed too long we lingered too long we've drone strike into the into the pocket proper so we're destabilizing pakistan and it is probably never been so fragile and such a powder keg as it is today and where the principal cause so we're not leaving afghanistan either despite what the president might say to the contrary well then you counterterrorism strategy does will say mean fewer...
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pakistan has the u.s. to shut down and leave an air base in the country southwest of the vicinity has that as a launching pad for washington's drone attacks against medicines on the volatile afghan border at will pakistani political analyst medical shari says the only way to stop the violence is to end the so-called war on terror one of the main reasons for the for the continuation of violent activity on the pakistan of god is done border is the mess that the us military has created inside of coniston over the past decade the mess there the way they have alienated a large portion segment of the afghan population in terms of the push to try to the way they have conducted the war on terror their the way they have alienated a large pockets really of the country is a big reason for why we have a country new ration of violence in afghanistan and how that violence is spilling over into pakistan and most pakistani commentators believe now that one of the ways short short cuts really to controlling violence and ex
pakistan has the u.s. to shut down and leave an air base in the country southwest of the vicinity has that as a launching pad for washington's drone attacks against medicines on the volatile afghan border at will pakistani political analyst medical shari says the only way to stop the violence is to end the so-called war on terror one of the main reasons for the for the continuation of violent activity on the pakistan of god is done border is the mess that the us military has created inside of...
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one of the main reasons for the for the continuation of violent activity on the pakistan of gonna stand border is the mess that the us military has created inside afghanistan over the past decade the mess there the way they have alienated a large portion segment of the afghan population in terms of the push to try to the way they have conducted the war on terror they are the way they have alienated a large pockets really of the country is a big reason for why we have a country new mission of violence in afghanistan and how that violence is spilling over into the park is down and most pakistani commentators believe now that one of the ways short shortcuts really to controlling violence and extremism on the pakistan afghanistan border is really to end the war on terror the way the u.s. military and the way the cia has been conducting this war over the past ten years one step forward is of course what president obama has declared but to use the words we're going to see really actions of the ground and we have yet to see whether important agencies within the u.s. government like essential i
one of the main reasons for the for the continuation of violent activity on the pakistan of gonna stand border is the mess that the us military has created inside afghanistan over the past decade the mess there the way they have alienated a large portion segment of the afghan population in terms of the push to try to the way they have conducted the war on terror they are the way they have alienated a large pockets really of the country is a big reason for why we have a country new mission of...
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which could go in any direction libya is a possible target it could be syria it could be pakistan we simply don't know at this point in time with foreign minister the russian foreign minister after all he's lashed out of what he's called the ambiguity of the form of the u.n. resolution. think that it's a land operation she didn't go through under such misinterpretations. well the nato operation is already flagrantly illegal because of the way they're they're violating let me put it this way the resolution violates the charter and nato is violating the resolution and they've got a sea blockade going here if you go out with your fishing boat here off the coast of tripoli you're going to get a u.s. predator drone come in shoot you up so this is not the protection of civilians it's the attempt to stop civilians nato air power is used to protect. packed full of al qaeda and other terrorists and it's used to attack civilians i've seen homes here where for a fight. little children essentially preschool kids were killed in the middle of the night launched by aircraft from forty thousand feet
which could go in any direction libya is a possible target it could be syria it could be pakistan we simply don't know at this point in time with foreign minister the russian foreign minister after all he's lashed out of what he's called the ambiguity of the form of the u.n. resolution. think that it's a land operation she didn't go through under such misinterpretations. well the nato operation is already flagrantly illegal because of the way they're they're violating let me put it this way the...
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stayed too long we lingered to drone strike into the plot in a pocket proper so we're destabilizing pakistan and it is probably never been so fragile and such a pattern as it is today and where the principal cause so we're not leaving afghanistan either despite what the president might say to the contrary drone strikes are an incredible development i often look at people who are so ardently in favor of them and say like to have them over manhattan how would you like to have them over houston or los angeles because that's what's going to come in the future of the chinese are already working hard on developing their own armed drones i'm sure other countries will do so in the future so if the if this becomes a principle development or more fair we're going to get it thrust on us at some time in the in the future perhaps not the distant future. well the chinese communist party is celebrating ninety years since it was founded and after taking power through the revolution of one nine hundred forty nine the parties turned the country into the world's fastest growing economy from more i'm joined now
stayed too long we lingered to drone strike into the plot in a pocket proper so we're destabilizing pakistan and it is probably never been so fragile and such a pattern as it is today and where the principal cause so we're not leaving afghanistan either despite what the president might say to the contrary drone strikes are an incredible development i often look at people who are so ardently in favor of them and say like to have them over manhattan how would you like to have them over houston or...